9 September 2004 Edition

There is a long and honourable tradition in Britain of opposition to the occupation of Ireland. It goes as far back as 1647 when the one of first political parties in England and early socialists, the Levellers, published The English Soldiers' Standard in which they set out their belief that Ireland should be free. Free article

By Danny Morrison. Last Monday on NBC News President George Bush was asked: "Can we the war on terror?" He replied: "I don't think you can win it." He thus directly contradicted a previous speech he made claiming that the war could be won. Free article

It was November 2001 and as we sat in a packed cinema watching the Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, it seemed that he had created a film spectacular in depth, scale and one that so aptly characterised the feeling of the time. Free article